flighty
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈflaɪ.ti]
- 美式音标 [ˈflaɪ.t̬i]
- 国际音标 ['flaiti]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- adj.(尤指女人或其行为)轻浮的,朝三暮四的,反复无常的
词根记忆
- f + light(轻的) + y→因为轻而飘浮着→轻浮的
英汉例句
- It was amplified by newfangled, flighty financial techniques, notably buying assets with borrowed money and watching leverage work its arithmetical magic.
他被新颖而轻浮的金融操作所放大,尤其是人们借钱购置资产,并坐观金融杠杆发挥着数字魔术。 - Set at the turn of the 19th century, in "Hayslope" during the Methodist revival, the story concerns Adam, a stern carpenter who is engaged to the pretty but flighty milkmaid, Hetty Sorrel.
该书写于 19 世纪末期,正值卫理公会教派复苏之时,主角亚当是一个不苟言笑的木匠,却娶了漂亮轻浮的挤奶工海蒂。 - She was drawn to the scholastic and artistic crowds in high school but they rejected her point-blank, assuming either that she was a flighty airhead or was mocking the gawky students in those circles.
在高中时,她想和爱学习有艺术气质的人交朋友,但是他们断然拒绝接受她,因为他们想当然的认为她只是一个轻浮而且脑袋空空如也的傻瓜蛋,或者怀疑她在嘲笑他们圈里的学生们迟钝。 - Even the strongest firm is a delicate combination of flighty clients and flightier talent.
ECONOMIST: UnfulPhilled - Hong Kong's investors are likely to fare better with boring insurance than with flighty internet stocks.
ECONOMIST: This year's biggest initial public offering - But because it did not rely on flighty capital markets for funds, it has weathered the downturn better.
ECONOMIST: Face value
双语例句
权威例句
词组短语
- Flighty Chicken 疯狂鸡蛋仔
- sedate flighty 稳定
- flighty whimsical 心情浮动的
- flighty thought 轻浮的思想
- flighty y 轻浮的
短语
英英字典
- (especially of a woman) not responsible and likely to change activities, jobs, boyfriends, etc. often
- If you say that someone is flighty, you disapprove of them because they are not very serious or reliable and keep changing from one activity, idea, or partner to another.